Customer Service Representative

Bank of America; Chester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Chester is seeking a Customer Service Representative to handle corporate cardholder inquiries. Responsibilities include providing excellent service, resolving queries, and working shift patterns. Candidates must speak English and an additional language, with a customer service background preferred. The role offers competitive benefits including private healthcare, a pension plan, and opportunities for community contribution.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Competitive pension plan

20 days of backup childcare

Flexible benefits selection

Employee Assistance Program

Charity contribution matching

Arts & Culture corporate membership

Community volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Customer Service or Contact Centre background would be useful.
• Must be able to work shift patterns between 6am and midnight.
• Organized and proactive with excellent multi-tasking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Handle a wide range of cardholder queries regarding commercial card accounts.
• Ensure calls are managed in a positive and professional manner.
• Resolve complicated cardholder queries efficiently.

Skills

Fluent in English

Fluency in one additional language (French, German, Spanish, or Italian)

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Customer Service Representative

Location: Chester

Company Overview: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Role Description

We have a fantastic Customer Service Representative opportunity, available here in our Chester office. You will be responsible for dealing with prestigious corporate cardholders and clients, answering telephone enquiries in accordance with established quality, revenue and productivity goals. The primary objective of the role is to provide a superior quality experience, adding value, and doing both as efficiently and effectively as possible whilst maintaining our high standards of ‘client delight’. For this position you must be fluent in English and either German or two of the following: French, Spanish or Italian. This role comes with great career prospects and the prospects of good internal mobility options for the right candidates. You will need to be able to work shift patterns that could start at as early as 6am and finish as late as midnight.

Responsibilities

• Handle a wide range of cardholder queries regarding the day-to-day running of their commercial card accounts in a multilingual contact centre environment.
• Ensure that all calls are handled in an empathetic, positive and professional manner, and actioned in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
• Handle more complicated cardholder queries and, where necessary, referring cardholders to supervisors or consulting with other internal partners.
• Always ensure that responsibility and ownership is taken for resolving cardholder queries whilst maintaining a high level of product knowledge and awareness of bank wide activities.
• Assist with special projects and miscellaneous duties as assigned.
• Utilise superior communication skills and knowledge of products, benefits and services to generate revenue and maximise account usage.
• Ensure that all information transferred to and from the cardholder is recorded accurately, and that confidentiality is maintained in accordance with the FCA Regulations and Data Protection Act.
• Be consistently focused on quality of work to ensure the correct balance between customer service and adherence to bank policies and procedures is maintained.

What we are looking for

• Fluent in English and one other language required (French / German / Spanish / Italian)
• Must be happy to work a range of shifts, Monday to Friday between 6am and midnight
• Customer Service or Contact Centre background would be useful
• Convey a professional, courteous and positive attitude at all times
• Well organised and proactive with excellent multi-tasking abilities
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Benefits of working at Bank of America

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.